Hao Jiang Tian grew up in China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Now he sings at the Met. Tian tells the story of how he moved from his hated piano lessons to life as a vocalist.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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George Sarrinikolaou was born in Greece and now lives in New York. He can pass for a Greek, but still feels like an outsider there
Gregory Stock tells Jim Fleming that designing our babies’ genes will begin as a matter of screening out diseases.
It has depended on thermal energy for centuries. Thanks to its hot springs, Iceland is 80 percent independent from fossil fuels.
Henry Jenkins tells Jim Fleming that "The Matrix" is a good example of what we can expect from a convergence culture – a story that is told in more than one medium.
Stories of ghosts and clairvoyants are everywhere, but can they stand up to scientific scrutiny? A hundred years ago, William James led an elite group of scientists to investigate the paranormal. Deborah Blum tells this remarkable story.
Hanna Pylvainen's debut novel "We Sinners" is loosely based on her own history in a fundamentalist Lutheran community.
Political scientist and linguist George Lakoff thinks that Conservatives have devoted a lot of thought, care and money to developing a rhetoric that advances their social agenda.
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